Defence correspondent

Until just over a week ago, Artem Kariakin and his unit were making regular trips across Ukraine’s…
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Defence correspondent
Until just over a week ago, Artem Kariakin and his unit were making regular trips across Ukraine’s…
In late January, barely a week into Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president, a senior NATO official told members of the European Parliament that Russia’s intensifying use of hybrid warfare poses a major threat to the West. In the…
Ultimately though, tough wording threatening additional sanctions on Russian energy and trade goods might mean little, given actually implementing it at an EU level still does require unanimity — and Hungary has time and time again blocked…
For years European officials have talked a big game on defence. The European Union has made numerous proposals to boost the continent’s puny production of arms. Three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, what do Europe’s…
Only 13 percent believe Trump “respects democratic principles,” while 43 percent say the U.S. president “has authoritarian tendencies” and 39 percent even think Trump “acts like a dictator.”
It’s not just Trump who is viewed…
“I joined the air force 35 years ago, aged 18, and went straight to Germany, based on a Tornado aircraft,” says British Air Commodore Andy Turk, who is now deputy commander of the Nato Airborne Early Warning & Control Force (AWACS). “It was…
There’s an often-heard and slightly predictable argument about European security. The continent is old and a bit doddery, it’s said. Getting a decision on anything takes years and the cake that emerges is disappointing and heavily…
European officials say the Trump administration has pared back its engagement with efforts to enforce sanctions on Russia as the US pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine.
The US has been largely absent from several working groups set up by…
Officials from the European Union said on Thursday that they would delay their retaliation against President Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs — including 50 percent levies on American whiskey and other goods — until the middle of next…